Thomas E. Ricks is The Washington Post’s special military correspondent and a member of two Pulitzer Prize–winning teams for national reporting. In addition, he is a senior fellow at the Center for a New American Security and a contributing editor at Foreign Policy magazine. He is the author of The Gamble, Fiasco, Making the Corps, A Soldier’s Duty, and his most recent book, The Generals. Ricks lives in Washington, D.C.
Tom Ricks Discusses The Gamble – The Daily Show
"What Lessons Should Americans Draw From Iraq War?" – NPR's Talk of the Nation
"Bin Laden: Bush vs. Obama" – MSNBC's The Last Word
"Military Analyst: ‘The Jig Is Up’ For Pakistan" – WBUR Radio's Here and Now
"What's Next For Obama's Afghan War Strategy?" – NPR
"What Bin Laden's Death Means To The Military" – NPR
Interview with Tom Ricks – NBC's Meet the Press
"Ricks: Time to radically alter the U.S.- Pakistan relationship; why send them billions more?" – CNN's In the Arena Off-Set Blog
"President Obama To Clarify Mission In Libya" – NPR's Talk of the Nation
"U.S. Military Has Questions About Libya Mission" – NPR's Morning Edition
"Ricks: Afghanistan Could Turn Out Better Than Iraq" – NPR's Morning Edition
Review of The Gamble – Los Angeles Times
"The War in Iraq, Second in a Series" – The New York Times
"Politics Collide With Iraq Realities" – The Washington Post
"McCaffrey Paints Gloomy Picture of Iraq" – The Washington Post
"[A] savvy study of leadership. Combining lucid historical analysis, acid-etched portraits of generals from 'troublesome blowhard' Douglas MacArthur to 'two-time loser' Tommy Franks, and shrewd postmortems of military failures and pointless slaughters such as My Lai, the author demonstrates how everything from strategic doctrine to personnel policies create a mediocre, rigid, morally derelict army leadership... Ricks presents an incisive, hard-hitting corrective to unthinking veneration of American military prowess."
– Publisher's Weekly
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